Ian wrote:Hold your hands behind your back, have someone (better if he's bigger, faster, and stronger) punch at your head. Slow, fast, slow, fast. Your job is to move out of the way. Bob and weave your head like a snake or a mosquito - basically unpredictable and hard to hit.
There are more, but I can't give away too many 'secrets'!
Ian wrote:NP, and FWIW I wasn't implying that you don't have defense skillz.
cerebus wrote:I've tried to use the Heng footwork at distance, but at enough of a distance the opponent can easily alter his angle. I do find the Bagua stepping at a medium range to sometimes work well. At close range I tend to go on the offensive, which is fine, but I could stand to be much more mobile than I am while doing so...
Zhong_Kui wrote:I want to understand the question more correctly.
As I read you, you basically know what to do, but your urge to just brawl gets in the way of your technical capacity to use otherwise good skills against an opponent of this type?
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